Yup--release important stuff, but blur victims and incidental derogatory things. (Roll up on a scene, there's a druggie shooting up in the background. Blur.)
Anyone can do a FOIA to get anything released, but they must pay for the review and blurring of things that shouldn't be shown. Defense gets the raw video without paying.
You say we should blur out a druggie in the background.
I think the public needs to have the unedited video to know the truth.
For example, unedited police body cam videos can show if a neighborhood is getting better or worse over time.
Video of druggies shooting up over time can be used to retroactively track the distribution of a new illegal street drug.
I do understand the desire to blur the naked sexual assault victim, but there will be problems with that. If the video is unblurred, Internet sleuths can match multiple attacks to one attacker, or even discover several attacks in the same style and trace it back to a particular jail they were an in before where they learned techniques.
Anyone can do a FOIA to get anything released, but they must pay for the review and blurring of things that shouldn't be shown. Defense gets the raw video without paying.